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I agree with you that there is a change in MacBeth. Note in scene V "I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
The time has been, my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me. " But don't forget MacBeth's compunctions, even at the outset of the play:
"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires..." I think you're right--and you state the obvious, but remember the tenor of MacBeth's words as he pushes himself toward the deed, and at one point almost talks himself out of it. "We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon. "
I welcome your thoughts.
Posted by Horatio on March 28, 1997 at 19:03:48
In Reply to "Macbeth" posted by Hamlet on March 28, 1997 at 11:22:40
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